sabuliten.
/ˈsabjuːlʌɪt/ Military.
A high explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate with some TNT and calcium silicide.
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1914 Daily Consular & Trade Rep. 17 June 1641 Tests were recently made..of a new explosive called sabulite, which will be manufactured at Coguitlam, British Columbia.
1914 Mining & Engin. World XLI. 676/1 Sabulite, a recent invention by a Belgian explosive expert, had a thorough and satisfactory test..a few days ago.
1919 E. de B. Barnett Explosives iv. 114 Very similar explosives in which calcium silicide is used in place of aluminium are also manufactured, Sabulite being an explosive of this class.
1940 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) IV. 464/1 Military sabulite contained ammonium nitrate 78%, trinitrotoluene 8% and calcium silicide 14%, the latter constituent increasing the heat of explosion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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